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Referential Integrity Revisited: An Object-Oriented Perspective

Summary: Revisits RI in relations for object-oriented structures; shows contested RI forms can be avoided without losing expressiveness. Advocates explicit foreign-key constraints (inclusion dependencies) as clearer, declarative RI with notes on DB2, SYBASE, INGRES. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7974
Venue
VLDB
Year
1990
Pagerank
5.5979348e-05
Overall Rank
5,261 | 63.41%
DOI
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462 Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS 1991 VLDB 0.00022481092
7,147 Safe Referential Integrity Structures In Relational Databases 1991 VLDB 4.81755e-05
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